From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-w3m question Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:50:51 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <871vxombxg.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <87vdvdu4mp.fsf@literaturlatenight.de> <74160b46-e541-436a-a776-c8bd53d6cd55@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <1f28a20e-0c9f-4478-a85c-27ae40ed7fc9@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com> <4d476218-bd76-4d41-8a12-1428dfba9e9b@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <107214be-5812-4519-bc29-a52f391f09a3@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <87bpwspvue.fsf@kobe.laptop> <5479b16f-bc86-41f7-8e13-b8f9727927a6@n1g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226032846 10649 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2008 04:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 04:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 05:41:49 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KyJAJ-0004JZ-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyJ9B-0005RO-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T8PqknC9T9jjrNJnB+HdHE2G0no= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 79.103.15.73 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=MEbdffgS_RD:1gGYL^MjGb9LMWQ7e=5Ik; Dg00eiGTBL6]Kj3; C9iA Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164208 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59542 Archived-At: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:22:33 -0800 (PST), Xah wrote: >On Nov 6, 10:12 am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:31:02 -0800 (PST), Xah wrote: >>> in the past year, i changed my newsgroup behavior so that i actually >>> try to reply to every message, then i came to realize thru >>> individualistic discussions, that they never used Windows, never used >>> Mac, which together are some 96% of world's computers emacs runs on, >>> but they insist that emacs UI should be this or that. >> >> 96% of statistics are made up. > > by ur mom? I guess she has her own share of false statistics, like me, you and everyone else :) >> I don't think Emacs has so _many_ Windows users. > > How many? It wasn't me who hinted at a 96% percentage of the world's computers, so asking _me_ to provide the number is a bit unrealistic. >> I know that a lot of people who use Emacs in other platforms like the >> Windows ports of Emacs too, but I highly doubt *all* the Windows >> users know about Emacs :) > > on the whole, do u have a point? Yes. Please don't use made up numbers to insult the people who designed the UI of Emacs. Some of them have used Windows too. For a long time. Long enough to get down and actually *port* Emacs on the platform.